crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 2, 2013

The world not ending on December 21, 2012, wasn’t the only memorable marketing moment in 2012. CEO Marissa Mayer ’s announcement of her plans to transform the company into a mobile-and technology-focused company bode well for marketers in 2013. Some of the memorable marketing events of 2012 surprised us, but many inspired us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. The public is not an easy master to satisfy.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

… Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft, capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

One of the key objectives of the recently passed JOBS act is that it will “open” the now 11 years and counting "shut” window for initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. companies went public.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these traditional banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. Now, the mistake: “Venture capitalists are sitting on plenty of cash and are good at bringing startups to the market. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. ” FULL STOP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Investors are showing an increased appetite for new stocks, with a good percentage of deals pricing above the marketed share price range.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables. Since I am chairman of the Technology side of the Organization, I attend more than one ABL group each month, and estimate that I’ve now attended more than six hundred half-day roundtables over the years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Don’t you just love these booming markets? Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Wrong about the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of a startup going public six to eight years after it was founded to raise capital to grow the company, today companies can to $50M+ funding rounds is a deferring the need for an Initial Public Offering to 10 or more years after a company is founded. The End of the High-Commitment/High-Performance Work System?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

My remarks explained the relationship between the long-term decline in America’s global competitiveness, the impact of the capital markets crisis on new investment in research and development, and specifically addressed Senate Bill 515 , the pending U.S. legislation that will transform the U.S. monopolists) and low cost producers (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Angels expect at least a working prototype and a hint of market acceptance (traction) before investing. Scalability.

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Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The two major differences in the exit environment in the past decade are (1) the disappearance of the IPO market and (2) the rapidly increasing size of the average VC fund. SOX and radically higher NASDAQ fees have limited those new ventures going public to much more mature and highly visible companies.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s common for SaaS start-ups to be bought by large enterprises for the technology/product. The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently).

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. This is HARD.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. IPO market. Despite the recent uptick in IPO activity, over the last several years, initial public offerings in U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Continuously improve your company’s products and technologies by focusing on the few truly strategic core platforms. Is a marketing plan important? Yes, cash flow is king and every start-up wants to achieve greatness or hit a sizable IPO, initial public offering sooner than later. Is high yield important?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Loading… Markets. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Eyeblaster pulled out of its initial IPO filing in October 2008 citing the “market conditions&# as a reason for the delay. Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9 The company has $15.4

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, The collateral effect of this market reality is that the vast majority of emerging VC-backed companies are effectively barred from going public. jobs today.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just this week, entrepreneur and investor Tim O’Reilly wrote a powerful piece in which he challenged Hoffman’s blitzscaling strategy, which often encourages companies to grow as fast as possible by raising venture capital to dominate new markets, a strategy leveraged by Uber among other unicorns (i.e. Certainly. But is it correct?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

"Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this evening raised $243 million by pricing its initial public offering at $9 per share, which would imply an market value of around $2.9 What's worse is that this end of the market is even affecting early stage VC mindset.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Marketing Services. stock quotes reflect trading in all markets and are delayed at least 15 minutes.

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